I had that dream again. The one where I'm being chased down and ripped apart by wild animals. I knew where it stemmed from. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why a street kid would develop a reoccurring nightmare like that. It was bothering me because I hadn't had the dream in a long time and now it was back. It was back when I was in the safest place that I had ever been. I was sleeping in the arms of my lover. Nothing was going to hurt me. Nothing could. Anything that tried to get me would have burst into flames from the amount of heat that Eric put off. The man was a sleeping space heater. I was sweating bricks. Never in my life have I enjoyed or wished for cold weather but I was at that moment. Anything to give me some relief from the oppressive heat that was my boyfriend.
I carefully tried to extricate myself but gained no advantage. He just gripped me tighter in his sleep. I tried to take a deep breath but it felt like I was breathing under water. I was pretty sure that I was going to die of a heat stroke. I gave up trying to be nice and just tore myself out of his arms. He whimpered like a wounded animal. The sound brought back flashes of my dream and it made me heartsick to hear it coming from him. I crawled over his sleeping form and snuggled up behind him, on top of the bedding. He seemed to settle back into peaceful slumber as soon as I had my arms wrapped around him and the open air on my back cooled me off dramatically. I was able to fall back asleep, this time playing the big spoon.
Eric jerking awake woke me. He grumbled a bit and turned over on to his back, pulling me into his arms. I rested my head on his smooth chest and drifted back to sleep.
I woke again to Eric caressing my back. "Bad night, Baby?" he asked.
"Hot," I explained, not having any desire to share my personal demons. "You put off more heat than a bonfire."
He chuckled. "I know. Sorry about that."
"Don't be," I told him, kissing the silky skin under my head. "I'll appreciate it come winter."
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Good." I snuggled closer into him.
He responded by wrapping his arms around me. "Throat better? Ass ok?"
I nodded against his chest.
"Good." He chuckled when I looked up at him. "You're a mess, Rain."
I grinned. "I'm not surprised. You're a little bit of a mess yourself." I told him, picking dried cum off his chest.
"You made a mess of both of us last night."
"Are you complaining?"
"Not in the slightest. That was the hottest thing I've ever seen," he replied. "I loved watching you come like that. I think we'll have to do that more often. A lot more often."
"I'm not going to argue with that," I assured him. "What are we doing today?"
"There's a guy coming by to pick up a piece that I did for him for a tat and then the night is yours," he told me.
"All mine?" I smirked and latched on to the nipple that was proving too tempting to pass up.
He hissed as I rolled the nub between my teeth. "If you start that now I'm going to finish it and I don't think Bishop will appreciate waiting around for me to fuck you senseless before he gets his flash."
"Hmmm." I sucked on his nipple for a second longer before I released it. "Bishop? Long brown hair, drives a Harley?"
"Yeah. You know him?"
"Knew him," I replied. "Once upon a time. Couple of years ago. Just not a name that you forget, ya know?"
Eric looked at me oddly. "Tell me that you didn't."
"I didn't," I told him. But I had. I hated that I lied to him but I rationalized it by the fact that the truth would make Eric jealous, possibly destroy his friendship with the guy, and I doubted that Bishop was going to divulge my secret.
It happened at a very low point in my life when I was willing to trade favors for favors. It was winter, I was homeless, and Bishop had a couch and a serious hard-on for blowjobs. I stayed a week. He was a decent guy. He was never mean to me but I couldn't stay. He was totally straight but had a girlfriend who refused to suck his dick. He wasn't going to throw me out and he was too weak to pass up the availability of my willing mouth. The guilt of what he was doing was tearing him up and I took the first opportunity to move on. I hadn't seen him since. It appeared as if that was about to change. I wondered if Eric would get suspicious if I hid in the loft.
"I'm going to take a shower and then make us something to eat," Eric told me. "Are you back on solids now?"
"Oh yeah," I crooned, reaching under the sheet and fondling his semi-hard cock. "Solids." It twitched in my hand and I grinned at him.
He squinted at me. "Do you always wake up horny?"
"Only when I wake up with a stunningly gorgeous man in my arms."
"How often does that happen?"
"Once, so far." I grinned. "I'm hoping for lots more in the future."
He chuckled. "We'll work on that." Then he patted me on the butt in a dismissive manner. "As much as I would love to take advantage of your mood, Bishop should be here soon. I need to make some attempt to look presentable. At the very least, wash the cum off my body."
I sighed dramatically and flopped over on the bed to let him up.
I checked out his body while he got out of bed and walked to the bathroom. He was magnificent. He wasn't built up like Arnold or Stallone. He was leaner, less bulky. But he wasn't skinny, like me. He had all this definition. I could see all the muscles ripple just under his skin as he moved. All the guys that I had seen naked, or partially, had a layer of padding. Eric didn't have that. He was rock solid and gorgeous. I had time to wonder what he did to make his body look like that while I lounged around in bed waiting for my turn in the shower.
"Biscuits and gravy ok with you?" Eric asked as he came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist.
"Hell yes," I replied as my stomach rumbled its opinion loudly.
Eric smirked at me and glanced over my naked body, still stretched out on the bed. "I know what I'd rather have." He eyed me lustfully.
I spread my arms. "I'm all yours."
"Don't tempt me," he leered at me. "Or Bishop will get a show that he hadn't bargained on."
I sighed and reluctantly got off the bed to shower.
When I got out of the shower I realized that I had left my stuff in the car. I could hear voices downstairs and assumed that Bishop was already there. I pulled on my jeans and the white dress shirt that Eric had been wearing the night before. It was huge on me. I looked like a kid playing dress up but it was better than my own shirt.
I walked down the stairs quietly but I didn't go unnoticed. Bishop looked up and smiled. "Rain. Long time."
"Hey Bish."
He hadn't changed a bit. He looked exactly like I remembered but it had only been a couple of years. His long hair was pulled back in a single braid down his back and he was wearing faded blue jeans and black leather jacket. He was the epitome of a biker.
He greeted me by clasping forearms and tugging me in for a shoulder bump. "Are you living here?" he asked, looking back and forth between me and Eric. I could see the question in his eyes. He was trying to figure out if I was doing favors for Eric.
"Nah. I have my own place," I told him.
"That's great," he grinned but he was fidgeting and rolling his shoulders back, shifting from foot to foot.
"How've you been?" I asked. "How's... I forgot her name." It was a lie. I knew her name. I was really good at remembering names and faces but I didn't like her so I was being a dick.
"Mindy?" he asked. "Oh man. I dumped her ages ago. Right after you split. That chick was cold, man. Couldn't keep a chick around that wouldn't touch me, ya know?"
"Yeah."
"I'm married now," he said. "Got a kid on the way."
"That's great, Bish." I grinned. "Congrats."
"Thanks, man," he smiled and then turned serious. "So why'd you bail, man? I just came home and you were gone."
I shrugged. "I was in the way. It was better."
He shook his head. "You didn't have to do that. It was cool."
"Your food is getting cold, Rain," Eric interjected quietly with that bored look on his face.
During the entire exchange between me and Bishop, Eric stood there glancing back and forth between us, I'm sure, taking note of Bishop's obvious discomfort with me. He was still a nice guy but his body language was screaming loudly enough for the neighbors to hear it and Eric wasn't stupid. He also wasn't happy.
"Yeah. Ok." I was being dismissed and I took the hint. "It was good seeing you," I said to Bishop.
"You too, man," he replied as I walked back to the kitchen.
From the kitchen I listened to them finish up their business and say their good-byes while I wondered what it must feel like to have something that you conceived of and created permanently inked on someone's body. Eric really could cook. I scarfed down some amazing biscuits and gravy. It was the good stuff with lots of pepper and chunks of sausage in it. It wasn't overly healthy but good southern food rarely is.
Eric strode into the kitchen, grabbed me by the back of the neck and took possession of my mouth. He kissed me with a degree aggression that I had not forgotten that he was capable of and it made my toes curl. During the kiss he used his tongue to push a pill into my mouth. It was the size and shape of an aspirin but tasted a thousand times worse. With as bad as it tasted, it could only be one thing.
"You lied to me," he growled as I took a sip of coffee to wash down the pill.
"I know," I admitted. "I'm sorry."
"Don't do it again."
"I didn't know what to do. I didn't want you to get jealous over something that meant nothing and happened years ago."
"I would rather be jealous than be lied to," he told me.
"Last time you got jealous you spanked me," I pointed out.
"What do you think I will do to you for lying to me?" He arched his eyebrow. The implied threat caused my breath to hitch and my dick to get hard. Eric smirked. "I think you just enjoy me punishing you."
The skin of my face heated in shame. I didn't know why it embarrassed me but it did. "I didn't know that he'd be so fucking obvious about it," I grumbled.
"This is cute." Eric tugged on the front of the shirt I was wearing.